Observation of optical-fibre Kerr nonlinearity at the single-photon level

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-98

  Matsuda, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Shimizu, Ryosuke ^b   Mitsumori, Yasuyoshi ^a,b   Kosaka, Hideo ^a,b   Edamatsu, Keiichi ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SOLITON TRANSMISSION; ULTRA-FAST RESPONSE TIME; WEAK COHERENT PULSE;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLITONS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 59449101623     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.292     Document Type: Article

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